Stellar Winds of Melotte 15

Ken Crawford (KenC) · #1 06-12-2010, 12:59 PM

I finally finished up a two frame mosaic project of the famous area around Melotte 15. I always seem to learn something new with every project and I must say I tried lots of different approaches with this one. Everyone here has seen this object many times and many different ways. That presents challenges for projecting one’s style into an image while trying to show something familiar a bit differently. So when framing and processing this image I decided to try a “wide screen” approach.

So I think the best way to look at this image is to click on the full screen button just below the image and then use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom until you have the frame full from side to side. I am interested for you to do this as I want to know what you think as I tried using selective approaches in details and light for Depth of Field.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Nebula.../Melotte15.htm

Of course you are free to zoom farther to look for details (or my short comings

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Thanks for taking the time to look,

paulF (Paul) · #2 06-12-2010, 01:20 PM

As usual, simply stunning! Keep up the beautiful work Ken!

Doomsayer · #3 06-12-2010, 01:25 PM

A great aesthetic quality to this image. The wide aspect ratio and the rich blue and brown hues work so well here. Art and science in unison.

guy

allan gould · #4 06-12-2010, 01:33 PM

Brilliant as usual, Ken. A beautiful image with great areas to view.

pmrid (Peter) · #5 06-12-2010, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ken Crawford

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]... Everyone here has seen this object many times and many different ways. ...

Sadly, the Heart and Soul nebs at 60+ degrees of dec are very much northern hemisphere objects so I have never seen them "in the eyepiece" but I'm happy to live vicariously through your image. It's a beaut.
Peter

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #6 06-12-2010, 02:29 PM

Really beautiful shot, your shots are better than many cloud shots of the earth in comparison, well done.

irwjager (Ivo) · #7 06-12-2010, 03:23 PM

Awesome shot Ken - so much to see!

I noticed though zooming in that the image looks very soft. It could just be my shoddy version of the Flash plug-in though (I use Linux).

Ken Crawford (KenC) · #8 06-12-2010, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by irwjager

Awesome shot Ken - so much to see!

I noticed though zooming in that the image looks very soft. It could just be my shoddy version of the Flash plug-in though (I use Linux).

Do me a favor, could you please click the link below the image details to download the jpg? let me know if you see a difference between the zoomify and the downloaded jpg. I am suspecting the conversion looks different with older Flash plug-in.

Thanks!

TrevorW · #9 06-12-2010, 05:25 PM

Very rich area the Melotte is one we don't get to see very often

gregbradley · #10 06-12-2010, 05:29 PM

Finally, someone has gotten some exposure time!

Wonderful image overall. I tend to agree it looks a bit soft in some of the dust areas which may stand a tad more sharpening? I downloaded the jpeg to look. Then again it is probably a really small neb and that may be unrealistic.

Greg.

Octane (Humayun) · #11 06-12-2010, 06:43 PM

That is sublime.

I love the fact that it's soft. I'm not the type to concern myself with image sharpness. Just stand back and take the whole thing in and admire a beautiful piece of work.

This is art.

H

strongmanmike (Michael) · #12 06-12-2010, 07:12 PM

Arrr..too soft, too sharp bah!...meeeh perhaps? but soooo picky

, I agree with Humi here enjoy the image for what it is and that's clearly a cracking snap shot of an amazing piece of sky, any little personally perceived imperfections are competely imaterial here ...like comenting on Elle Macphersons left nipple being slightly higher than her right ...still Elle Macpheson!

Really Great job again...?..Kenny Koala (...soon)

Oh and doing what you suggested per the viewing method works well.

Mike

Lester · #13 06-12-2010, 07:16 PM

Beautiful image Ken, thanks for the view. All the best.

Peter Ward · #14 06-12-2010, 07:48 PM

Nice one...Very cool...absolute zero cool...

SkyViking (Rolf) · #15 06-12-2010, 08:31 PM

Magnificent image Ken, congratulations on such a great capture. I too like the softness, its wonderfully understated in some sense, and yet full of rich colour and detail.
Interestingly the saturation seems stronger when I view the JPEG directly compared to when I view it in the flash zoomer. Both look great to me though. Thanks for sharing.

TheAstroGuy (Shane Ross) · #16 06-12-2010, 11:37 PM

Absolutely Sublime as alway Ken, Masterful work!

Kindest Regards

shane

marc4darkskies (Marcus) · #17 07-12-2010, 07:16 AM

Lovely shot Ken!

Cheers, Marcus

RB (Andrew) · #18 07-12-2010, 09:07 AM

Beautiful image !
Love those gorgeous hues.

Paul Haese · #19 07-12-2010, 09:22 AM

Great work as usual Ken. The colours are very rich and the overall image looks very nice.

Hagar (Doug) · #20 07-12-2010, 08:24 PM

Magnificent Ken, Really lovely rendition and the detail is astounding. I am looking at your image handler (Zoomify) for images on my website at the moment. May take me a while to get my head around it but it is a cool way to handle a big image.

Thanks for posting Ken.